Links to information
about Colombia
Non-governmental
organizations (U.S. and Europe)
- U.S.
Office on Colombia: site of a Washington-based network of NGOs
- Latin
America Working Group - Colombia: site of a Washington-based network
of NGOs focused on U.S. policy towards Latin America
- Center
for International Policy Colombia Program: lots of information about
U.S. policy toward Colombia
- Washington
Office on Latin America: main page
and Colombia program page
have publications and background information about human rights and U.S. policy
in Colombia
- Amnesty
International U.S.A. Colombia page: research, alerts and position statements
- American
Friends Service Committee
Colombia page
- Peace Brigades
International Colombia
Project: site of an organization that maintains international observer
and accompaniment teams in areas of conflict; includes a twice-monthly information
packet
- Mennonite
Central Committee - Uprooted
in Colombia: a photo gallery of internal displacement in Colombia
- Chicagoans
for a Peaceful Colombia
- Colombia
Human Rights Network: urgent actions, links and "Colombia
Update" newsletter from national grassroots network
- Disarm
Education Fund
- Fellowship
of Reconciliation Colombia page
- Lutheran
World Relief Colombia: action alerts and background papers
- Human Rights
Watch Colombia page (English
| Spanish): extensive
research on Colombia's human rights crisis
- Witness for
Peace Colombia program:
action alerts, background information and information about speaking tours
and delegations
- Institute
for Policy Studies Drug Policy Project: advocates for reform by reaching
out to non-traditional allies and employing innovative tactics
- U.S.
Labor Education in the Americas Program Colombia - Violence
Against Workers: An overview and organizing packet on the crisis of labor
activists in Colombia
- Nizkor human
rights Colombia page: extensive collection of documents from Spanish human
rights group [English
| Español]
- [English
| Español] Transnational
Institute Drugs and Democracy Project: seeks a reassessment of the conventional
prohibitive and repressive drug policy approaches; includes publications and
links
- Americas.org
Colombia Lens: news
links, features, and analysis from the Minneapolis-based Resource Center of
the Americas
- Foreign Policy
in Focus - Colombia: brings together
some of the best thinking of citizen groups and analysts about U.S. policy
in the Andes and the war on drugs
- Colombia
Support Network: updates, analysis and alerts from national grassroots
network based in Madison, Wisconsin
- [Español]
Europa y Colombia: diplomacia
y sociedad civil: a project of the Spain-based Centro de Investigación
para la Paz (CIP- FUHEM)
- [Español]
Actualidad Colombiana: a
twice-monthly bulletin published by three Colombian organizations
- [Español]
Mama Coca: on-line academic
journal on complexity, conflict and drugs in the American Region
- Church
World Service Colombia Page: CWS urges that assistance to Colombia
be supportive of, and not undermine, the peace process
- War
on Drugs and Human Rights in Colombia: site maintained by activist
Paul Wolf
Non-governmental
organizations (Colombia)
- [Español]
Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos
y el Desplazamiento (CODHES): frequently updated website from a Colombian
organization that monitors forced displacement and plays a leading role in
civil-society peace efforts
- [Español]
Noche y Niebla: database of
human rights violations in Colombia's conflict, maintained by non-governmental
organizations CINEP and Justicia y Paz
- [Español]
Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados
Unidos: a coalition of about 100 Colombian human rights groups
- [Español]
MINGA - Asociación para la
Promoción Social Alternativa: respected Colombian human rights
organization that performs education, research and legal assistance
- [Español]
Corporación Unidades Democráticas
para el Desarrollo (CEUDES): Colombian organization that emerged from
1990-1991 peace processes and works "to promote the rule of law and participative
democracy"
- [Español]
Colombian Commission of Jurists:
research from one of Colombia's most respected and frequently cited human
rights groups
- [Español]
Planeta Paz: Colombian organization
that seeks to integrate traditionally excluded sectors of society into peace-building
- [Español]
Galería de la Memoria,
Fundación Manuel Cepeda Vargas: well-designed slide show providing
an excellent overview of Colombia's recent history, complicated conflict and
human rights crisis [English
| Español]
- [Español]
Corporación Regional para
la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (CREDHOS):
non-governmental human rights organization very active in Colombia's Magdalena
Medio region
- [Español]
Fundación Ideas para la Paz:
a Colombian "think tank" founded by business leaders in 1999,
includes numerous documents, analyses and links to news
- [Español]
Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo
y la Paz (Indepaz): Publications and information from a Colombian research
organization
- [Español]
Viva la Ciudadanía:
organization founded in 1990 to strengthen democratic reform
- [Español]
Programa de Desarrollo y Paz del Magdalena
Medio: Promotes sustainable human development and peace-building in
the conflictive Magdalena Medio region
- [Español]
Pastoral Social Colombia:
peace, development and human rights organization of the Episcopal Conference
of Colombia's Catholic Church
- [Español]
Fundación Instituto para la
Construcción de la Paz (Ficonpaz): founded by the Archdiocese
of Bogotá in an effort to build a cuture of peace
- [Español]
Vía Alterna: "space
for opinion and reflection," hosted by a political movement that includes
two former M-19 guerrillas who are now members of Colombia's Congress
- [Español]
Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas
del Norte del Cauca: a frequently updated site managed by the indigenous
communities of northern Cauca department
- [Español]
Fundación Seguridad
y Democracia: research on military strategy, doctrine, and prospects
for peace
- [Español]
Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos
Desaparecidos (ASFADDES): site of Colombia's main organization of relatives
of forcibly disappeared persons
- [Español]
Fundación País Libre:
organization dedicated to stopping the practice of kidnapping in Colombia
- [Español]
Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios
Legales Alternativos (ILSA): Colombian organization that promotes a
network of grass-roots alternative legal services in Latin America and the
Caribbean
- Centro
de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP): influential human rights
and human development organization founded by the Jesuits in 1962 [English
| Español]
- [Español]
Unión Sindical Obrera
(USO): labor union, incorporates oil workers and teachers
- [Español]
Organización Nacional Indígena
de Colombia (ONIC): indigenous-rights umbrella organization
News sources
Analysis
- [Español]
United Nations Development Program - Colombia:
be sure to read the UNDP's excellent 2003 National
Development Report for Colombia
- UN
Office on Drug Control and Crime Prevention: UN office in charge of
drug policy; produces annual report on Global Illicit Drug Trends
- [Español]
Colombia Field Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: website of the important human
rights presence that the UN has maintained in Colombia since 1997
- Wide
Angle - Colombia: a briefing, "handbook," photo essay and
other resources accompanying an edition of the PBS television program that
aired in September 2004.
- [Español]
IndyMedia Colombia: links
to alternative news stories about Colombia
- Actualidad
Colombiana
- International
Crisis Group Colombia Project: research from a prominent multinational
think-tank
- Beyond
Armed Actors: A Look at Civil Society: the spring 2003 issue of ReVista,
the Harvard Review of Latin America, dedicated entirely to Colombia
- Latinamerica
Press Colombia
page: articles, many availalbe for free, from a Peru-based alternative
news service
- Colombia
Program, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University: publications,
conference documents and analysis on peace, conflict, and governance in Colombia
- Inter-American
Dialogue: Washington-based policy analysis center, occasionally publishes
articles about Colombia
- Locombia:
an internet forum about Colombia, its culture and the conflict; goal is
"to tell the truth about Colombia, the good and the bad"
- Colombia
maps: a few good maps from the University of Texas's Perry-Castañeda
Library map collection
Government sites
- Embassy
of Colombia in Washington: includes links to news, press releases,
analyses and background information about Colombia
- Embassy
of the United States in Bogotá: includes documents, background
information, press releases and texts of recent speeches
- [Español]
Alto Comisionado
para la Paz: office of the Colombian government's High Commissioner
for Peace, which negotiates with armed groups
- [Español]
Cultivos Ilícitos,
Impacto Ambiental y Erradicación: studies, including maps and
coca-growing data by municipality, from the Colombian government
- State
Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs:
manages the International Narcotics Control program, the fumigation program,
and most aid to Colombia
- State Department
page on U.S. Support
for Plan Colombia
- White House
Office of National Drug Control
Policy: the office of the "Drug Czar," many publications
available
- Drug
Enforcement Administration: U.S. agency responsible for enforcing the
United States' drug laws and for bringing to justice those involved in the
trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States
- [Español]
Programa Presidencial de
los Derechos Humanos y el DIH: human rights-related information from
the Colombian vice-president's office
- [Español]
Ministry of Defense of Colombia:
Colombia's military
- [Español]
Red de Solidaridad Social: the Colombian
government's agency for aiding victims of forced internal displacement
- [Español]
Presidencia de Colombia
Armed groups
